Handle for blacksmithss tools



(No Model.)

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I HANDLE FOR BLAGKSMITH'S TOOLS. 110,304,769. Patented Sept. 9, 1884.

Inventor:

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VILLIAM E. VVH ITTLETON, OF ROCHESTER, NEXV YORK.

HANDLE FOR BLACKSMITHS TOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. L769, dated September9, 1884.

' Application filed May 22, 18%. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. WHITTLE- TON, of the city of Rochester,in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Handles for Blacksmiths Tools, which improvementis fully set forth in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings.

There is a class of blacksmiths and boilermakers tools, including thecold-chisel, flatter, fuller, svage, rivet-header, &c., used in forgingand boiler-making that are formed to be held upon the work by theprincipal workman and struck with a sledge by the assistant. These toolsare commonly made with eyes or holes through them laterally, in which toreceive the ends of wooden handles-about twenty inches or two feet long,to be grasped by the principal workman while the helper strikes the headof the tool with a sledge, as stated, to give shape to the work.Piercing these tools with eyes is an expensive operation in themanufacture of them, and, besides, the eyes very much weaken the tools,so the latter are very apt to break across at the eye after beingrepeatedly struck with the sledge. To

- avoid the expense and time necessary to form coil or bend of the same.

these tools with eyes, blacksmiths sometimes form them solid and bend apiece of wire or light rod of iron around them, bringing the projectingends of the wire or rod together to be used as a handle, the tool beingheld in. the Tools thus formed last much longer and are made at muchless expense; but the crude handles thus formed are troublesome andobjectionable, as they do not hold the tools firmly, and, besides, areawkward to grasp or hold in the hand.

To supply a desirable handle for holding these solid or eyeless toolsfirmly and well, and one to take the place of the crude bent rod, is theobject of my invention, which invention consists of a rod with anadjustable eye or 1001) at one end in which to receive the tool, and asleeve to receive or cover the shank or rod and effect the expansion orcontraction of the eye by longitudinal adjustment, and means to adjustthe sleeve thereon so as to expand or contract the eye or loop atpleasure in the act of grasping and holding the tool, which invention isfully set forth in the accompanying drawings, and more particularlypointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvedeyeless tool-holder with all parts in place, a tool being shown indotted lines; Fig. 2. a view of the same taken as indicated byarrow inFig. 1; Fig. 3, a view of the sleeve removed from the rod or shank,showing also the form of the ends of the former; Fig. 4, a view of therod and eye without the sleeve, also the adjustable thread-protectingnut in plan and central longitudinal section; Fig. 5, a'modification inthe construction of the eye and Fig. 6, an enlarged figure showing themovable part of the eye in two positions, and the manner of hanging thesame to the main part or shank, the latter being sectionedlongitudinally to expose the joint.

Referring to the parts, A is a rod of iron, of

suitable diameter and length to form a holder for the tools abovementioned, provided with a screw-thread, a, at one end, and at the otherend curved into a nearly semicircular hook or how, I).

Z is a short piece of rod of the same diameter as the rod A, bent at 0,similar to the curved part Z) of the rod, and attached to the latter sothat the curved ends of the two parts shall be even, the curves lying inthe same plane and concavit-ies of the two curves opposite each other,as shown. The part Z is joined to the rod A by means of a simple tongue,e, projecting from the part Z into a longitudinal opening, (I, in therod A, as shown in Fig. 6, a pin, t, passing through both parts toretain them in place, and when thus joined the bowed parts 0 and bform acircular loop or eye, h, in which to receive the tool.

B is a sleeve for the rod A, preferably made of gaspipe, re-enforced atone end by a band, f.

At 0 is shown the end of the sleeve surrounded by the band, showing thewhole as slightly flattened, making the bore 9 of the pipe thereatoblong or oval. The other end of the sleeve is cylindrical, as shown at1), to be grasped in the hand of the workman. The sleeve is passed overthe rod A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the flattened banded end beingnext the eye h, so that the oval or oblong part IOO r of the bore coversa portion of the separated or diverging parts I) and 6 near the pointatwhich they arejoined. From this construction of parts it w illbeunderstood that it. the sleeve be urged longitrulinally toward the eyeh, the latter will be contracted by the parts 7) and I being broughtnearer togetlurr, while, it the sleeve he slid back or in the oppositedirection, the eye is permitted to expand. The sleeve is shorter thanthe rod, and of such relative length that when placed on the latter thethreaded end (0 ol' the rod projects a short distance to receive the nut7r, which, when screwed onto the threads at a, bears against the end ofthe sleeve. 13y turning or screwing the nut i'urther on the rod thesleeve will be urged further over the divided parts l'orini ng the eye,and contract the latter upon the tool. The tool may be released byturning the nut It in the opposite direction and allowing the sleeve toslide back from the eye. The nut 7: is provided with a U-shaped part orhow, 01, which covers and protects from injury the threaded end a of therod. In throwing these toolhandles around careless] y, as worlunen areapt to do while using them, the threads at a are apt to get marredunless protected. This style of toolhaudle is light and durable andconvenient to hold in the hand, and in every way preferable to thewooden or bent-rod handles iirst above named.

may answer ust as well, thought-he extent to which it may be expandedand contracted is less than that of the correspoinling part shown inFig. 4:. The sleeve being carried over the rod causes the eye to open orclose in the same manner in which it causes the eye of the rod shown inFig. 4, to open and close, as described.

What I claim as my invention is 11.. A handle for holding eycless tools,consisting of a rod, A, with attached part 1, which latter, with the redA, is curved to term an eye, 71., in which to receive the tool, and asleeve, 13, for the rod, with means to more the sleeve longitiulinallyupon the rod to adjust the size or diameter of the eye, substantially asshown and described.

2. The red A of a tool-holder, provided at j one end with a screwthread,u, and at the other end with a part, Z, joined to the rod by a pivotaljoint, the two parts together iornliug an eye, It, in which to receive atool, a sleeve, 11}, for the rod, and serew-nnt Ix, tor the threadedpart a of the rod, said screw-nut being pro vided with a protector, n,for the thread, sulr stantially as set forth.

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